sullen - Story 143106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

*Ugh, today,* she thought, pushing open the heavy glass door. She hated the sterile look of the building and the forced cheerfulness of everyone in it. The whole situation felt like a huge joke.

Her task: show the ropes to a fresh-faced woman named Sarah. Sarah had brought in muffins, which sat untouched on her desk. The gesture felt wrong. Everything felt wrong.

"Right. Marketing," she began, the word coming out like a sigh. “It’s about manipulating people, mostly.” She didn't look at Sarah when she said it, instead focusing on rearranging the pens on her desk.

Emotion: sullen

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sullen. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sullen stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sullen emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sullen vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.404
`😞`	0.282
`’`	0.254
`:(`	0.233
`无法`	0.215

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`!`	-0.276
`la`	-0.263
`🤩`	-0.225
`que`	-0.216